Bug 759031

Summary:	dev-vcs/repo-2.10: version bump
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dongsu Park <dongsu>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dongsu Park 2020-12-08 10:48:28 UTC

dev-vcs/repo 2.10 was released, https://groups.google.com/g/repo-discuss/c/rpSfMCl83Sk.
Starting from the release, repo does not support python2 any more.
It means, its "stable" branch in the git repo, https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+/refs/heads/stable, is not compatible with repo used by end-users, when the repo's version is 2.9 or older.
That's why end users could end up seeing such issues, immediately after running "repo init".

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mnt/host/source/.repo/repo/main.py", line 56, in <module>
    from subcmds.version import Version
  File "/mnt/host/source/.repo/repo/subcmds/__init__.py", line 38, in <module>
    ['%s' % name])
  File "/mnt/host/source/.repo/repo/subcmds/upload.py", line 27, in <module>
    from hooks import RepoHook
  File "/mnt/host/source/.repo/repo/hooks.py", line 472
    file=sys.stderr)
        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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So we should update dev-vcs/repo to 2.10 in Gentoo.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2021-01-06 10:13:54 UTC

please see the comment in the repo ebuild:
# NB: The $PV tracks the *repo launcher version*, not the last signed release
# of the repo project.  The launcher only gets a new update when changes are
# made in it.

there are no differences between repo-2.8 & repo-2.10.  if you look at the releases, repo-2.8 is the latest launcher:
https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo-2.8
https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo-2.9
https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo-2.10